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Instructional Design for Online Learning
Criteria for success: I attended an online seminar for Online Educators, during which the following criteria were agreed upon as a starting point for creating a successful online course. They're listed in no particular order. Clearly articulated objectives and expectations... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 10:54 p.m..
Dave Winer and Adam Curry are not pursuing a podcasting business together
Dang! I was looking forward to this! From
Scripting News: 2/7/2005.: QUOTEA heads-up about an upcoming server change. Since I'm not pursuing a podcasting business with Adam Curry, he's going to move his sites off my servers, on or before the end of this month. That includes ipodder.org and curry.com, but not audio.weblogs.com, which will remain on my server. After the transition, ipodder.org will be hosted on one of Adam's servers, and he will be responsible for its perfo From
Roland Tanglao's Weblog on February 8, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..
Milestones
Amazing...
If you'd a told me three years ago... I feel like I can't say this enough: I am very fortunate to be a part of such a dynamic, cre From
weblogged News on February 8, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Reading Program Didn't Boost Skills
When you spend $50 million on e-learning, you expect results. That's not what happened in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which purchased Pearson Education's Waterford Early Reading Program four years ago only to find after a study that the software didn't help, and sometimes hindered, student learning. But as a Pearson spokesperson says, "The findings confirmed what we already knew: you have to turn it on to have an impact." According to studies, teachers didn't have enough time for the computer program because they had to cover a reading curriculum introduced by From
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
edna-for-schools, 8 February
It's the start of another new school year in Australia and as teachers sit down to plan the new year they can't go wrong if they being with the EdNA newsletter, a fantastic resource that in the space of a few hundred words puts teachers in context, connects them to resources, and gives them something to think about. It's hard to find a better example of online learning than this. By Various Authors, EdNA, February 8, 2005 [
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OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Top Scholar
Bill Williams forwards this item from last October, a item, he says, that may merit inclusion. I agree; it is a description of Scotland's Edinburgh's Interactive University (IU) which, over the past 18 months, "has attracted 75,000 students from more than 23 countries. In sharp contrast to the failure of its English counterpart, UkeU, which had signed up only 900 students when it was scrapped in June, the IU has seen a 75% increase in student numbers over the past year." The differences? The article highlights the personal contact between students and teachers, the ability of student From
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Staff Online
Christian Spatzierer sent me an email yesterday inviting me to try his company's product, Staff Online, with an eye toward e-learning applications. The idea is that by clicking on a link on a web page you are put into a videoconference with a representative - which could be customer support, an instructor, a mentor, or a tutor. I tried the system, which is based on a Flash interface - this means I didn't install any software, didn't need to do anything, in fact. Using my headset (there is a text window if you're not connected for sound, and their video camera works even if From
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
ODRL/DCMI Profile Working Group
The Open Digital Rights Initiative (ODRL) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) have formed a working group to develop an ODRL/DCMI profile. As described in the announcement, "The profile will show how to make combined use of the rights-related DCMI metadata terms and the ODRL rights expression language. This will enable richer rights management information to be captured along with DCMI descriptive metadata and support wider interoperability with DRM and open content licensing systems." By Renato Iannella and Andy Powell, February 7, 2005 [
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
5th Grade Science Class Take Part In Distance Learning Program
I like this: "The participants become members of the volcano, hurricane, evacuation or communication team during the two-hour, electronic mission. Operation Montserrat engages each participant to work as a scientist in order to solve problems in real-life situations. The mission challenges participants to apply their mathematics and science knowledge to a real-life event." Via
TechLearning News. By Unattributed, Marshall County Journal, February 2, 2005 [
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Human Nature and Social Networks
I liked this paper a lot (thanks, Tom, for the link) though I admit to rolling my eyes at the Hobbes-Rousseau opening. Still, this is fundamentally right: humans have developed the ability to reduce what might be called the transaction costs of communication through effective internalization of social conventions, such as the use and recognition of language, behaviours and other forms of interaction. Historically, because of the difficulty of communication, this has limited our social sphere to about 150 people; beyond that, and instead of the informal mechanisms we employ to, say, build trust From
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
As Spam Approaches 95 Percent of All Email, What Do We Do?
Cut this out and paste it to your wall: it's easier to filter for what you do want than what you don't. That's why I agree with this: "Eventually, we'll need to move to use social networks to our advantage to include FOAF in an email solution that filters spam. Most current current filtering systems work on identifying spam and then let everything else through. We need the reverse: a method of authenticating/identifying good email and block everything else." By cel4145, Kairosnews, February 8, 2005 [
OLDaily on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Will Wall Street Diss Newspaper Industry?
Here's an interesting excerpt from a
story by Roderick Boyd in the New York Sun: "The Wall Street analyst said that the New York Times Company's difficulties stem from its high cost structure and what he termed 'the incredible diffusion of its competition.' Adding to this last point, a hedge fund manager who said he is contemplating a 'small short position in the stock' said, &apo From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 8, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
A Search-Centered Version of Local Mapping
Google has launched yet another "beta" product -- a new mapping service that works more like a search engine and less like the existing "fill out this form, please" map generators. Try
maps.google.com and enter a location search term, such as "St. Louis, Mo." Then click the "local search" link and enter "Post-Dispatch" to find an assortment of Post-Dispatch plants and bureaus plotted on the map, plus some other entries that are somehow associated through Google magic.The service interoperates with Web search and directory data. It has some rough ed From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 8, 2005 at 9:54 p.m..
Blogging in Bermuda Redux
My Bermuda blogvangelism trip was certainly a treat in many ways, not the least of which was how much I learned. One thing that is so humbling about these Read/Write Web technologies is that despite knowing some of them very well, there is so much yet to explore and understand. And having the opportunity to give workshops to motivated and enthusiastic teachers like the ones at the Whitney Middle School give me an opportunity to learn from them, which is half if not most of the fun. I feel very fortunate. It's still a pretty amazing concept to most teachers that
weblogged News on February 8, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..
[tti] Morning
Andrew took us through IBM's Webfountain project, which crawls gigantic piles of data looking for meaning. He pointed especially to applications using it to look for the effect of marketing campaigns on Web pages, although it has other uses, of course. Ian Black of Autonomy says that the Auutonomy project head at Ford's training department says "Metadata is for the birds" because his department generates 5 million new objects per month, too much for manual tagging. Autonomy wants to provide systems that push info to users without requiring them to interact with it beforehand. Eric Bo From
Joho the Blog on February 8, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..
Bombeck's Early Work Resurrected
Erma Bombeck was one of the great newspaper humor columnists of the last century, and her talent has been commemorated in the
Erma Bombeck Online Museum. (Isn't a globally accessible "museum" better than just having a building somewhere that won't have nearly the reach?) The Museum is now
adding 15 Bombeck columns that were published in 1946 and 1947 by the Arkay News -- early in the columnist's career, when she was only 19.You can find the rare Bombeck columns From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 8, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..
DRUMS - Digital ID for stuff
Scott Matthews has an idea-in-progress called DRUMS. It's a database of creative works and relevant metadata including, crucially, rights and permissions. It'd be maintained by a trusted authority, if we can ever find one of those again. Scott thinks this might provide the infrastructure required to develop a middle path between the copyright totalitarians and the free culture hippies. (Disclosure: I am a free culture hippy.) It's an interesting idea, well worth discussing, but we can already embed rights and permissions via Creative Commons. Why would an authorized centralized, From
Joho the Blog on February 8, 2005 at 7:49 p.m..
Moving Along...
I was hoping to be able to keep updating this site even as I moved into my new life. Unfortunately, I just don't have enough hours in the day to do everything I'd like to to, so eJournal is going to become an archive, not an ongoing blog. I hope you'll visit me at my
new site, where I discuss grassroots journalism and other topics. Many thanks to everyone (well, almost everyone) who's been part of this five-year-plus conversation. Hope we can continue talking in other forums. From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on February 8, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..
Fifty Writing Tools
At times, it helps to think of writing as carpentry. That way, writers and editors can work from a plan and use tools stored on their workbench. You can borrow a writing tool at any time. And here's a secret:... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Online Learning Sweatshops
Recently. MSNBC ran an article pointing to the court cases spawned by virtual worlds . According to the article, a virtual island in one of the massive multi-player online role playing games (MMORPGs) sold for $30,000, enough to attract commercial... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
Team Sites Beat Objective Sports Coverage in U.K.
Astute sports-media watchers saw this coming several years ago, but it's still a shock to see it happening. As
reported by Leigh Phillips for DMeurope.com, 79 percent of 4,624 sports fans who took part in a U.K. poll said that their favorite sports team's official website was the most important medium for them to access sports results and news -- more so than national newspaper sports pages, broadcast TV, cable and satellite TV, etc.This should be a scary survey for sports editors. It would appear that th From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 8, 2005 at 6:55 p.m..
[tti] My presentation
I'm sitting in the audience at a TTI-Vanguard conference where I just spoke, which means a cocktail of adrenalin and self-loathing is coursing through my bloodstream. Everyone in the audience has a microphone and is encouraged to interrupt with questions and disagreements. So, I didn't make it all the way through my talk, which is common here. Unsurprisingly, the comments were quite trenchant: Since the Dewey Decimal system expands infinitely to the right of the decimal, it isn't as limited as I'm making it out; Don't we want data aggregators like Google to make some v From
Joho the Blog on February 8, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..
Earthquake and Tsunami
The teaching and learning activities in this special report help contextualize the terrible impact of the Sumatran Earthquake of December 2004 and its repercussions. It suggests some ways students can help victims and empower young learners with knowledge and skills... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
Spam 95% of all email
Vnunet.com reports that Spamhaus predicts that, at the current rate of increase, 95% of all email traffic will be spam by the middle of 2006. I believe that blacklists and filters are not enough. Eventually, we'll need to move to... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
Copyright: Who owns Weblog content?
Interesting story from Information Week on copyright and other legal rights associated with employee blogs and RSS - issues that are likely to crop up more and more often as blogs become more popular. Confidentiality, ownership, and liability are all... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 6:00 p.m..
Trying to explain
People who read and write blogs know the experience; you have to explain what you are doing to others who may not get it. Recent examples: the annual report we all write for our chair and dean, or the conversation with the visiting creative writer who (one fears) may not consider blogging to be serious writing at all. Another angle on the problem: if you handed many people printouts of your blog, they might very well say, "What is this and why should we consider it a substantial... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 8, 2005 at 5:58 p.m..
Rideshare to Northern Voices from Victoria?
(Clearly of only limited interest to anyone not on Vancouver Island, but hey, it's my blog!) The
Northern Voices blogging conference is fast approaching - I am driving over from Victoria the night before, catching the 3pm ferry and have room for 2-3 others. I am returning the next day likely on the 7 or 9pm ferry. Love to have company and hate to drive to the mainland with empty seats in my car, so
let me know if you could use a ride. - SWL From
EdTechPost on February 8, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
Design Once for Multiple Uses of Learning Content
Das Thema scheint fast ein Dauerbrenner, aber man sollte die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben: Warum Inhalte, die für ein Lernprogramm entwickelt wurden, nicht auch in anderen Zusammenhängen verfügbar machen? Zum Beispiel zum "just-in-time performance support"? Oder auch über Institutions- und Unternehmensgrenzen... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on February 8, 2005 at 5:56 p.m..
A Folkonomy of Words (Ross Mayfield)
Great article on Tagging in Salon that covers the applications, social use and commercial implications. Quotes three M2Mers, but you have to love this: "It's like Friendster for knowledge as far as I'm concerned," says Howard Rheingold. "I look... From
Corante: Social Software on February 8, 2005 at 5:52 p.m..
Bring Me Your News-Hungry Masses
The New York Times is optimizing inbound traffic to its site in various ways these days. As
noted here before, it has ceased allowing readers to forward the full text of an article to someone else, now only sending along a link. Recipients are of course bound to come pay a visit to the site.
NYTimes.com also allows webloggers and others to link to articles via
RSS feeds, From
Poynter E-Media Tidbits on February 8, 2005 at 4:55 p.m..
Helmut Kobler - Marketing and Guerilla Film School
The Apple Pro web site has a profile of Helmut Kobler. Kobler describes how he integrated marketing ideas for his indie film "Radius," making them a part of the pre-production process. Helmut Kobler is the author of "Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies," "Final Cut Pro 4 for Dummies," "Final Cut Express for Dummies" and "Final Cut Pro 3 for Dummies." Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he was a video game developer at 3DO and later at his own company. Read more at
Apple - Pro/ From Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
Boston Underground Film Festival
The Boston Underground Film Festival announces its seventh annual competition, celebrating bizarre, insane film/ video artists. The festival will be held the second week in May, and will include the best in provocative and experimental features, shorts, animation, and documentaries. The festival seeks the alternative, the confrontational, the political and the controversial. The festival is particularly interested in films that explore musical components, topics and themes. The Boston Underground Film Festival seeks films that celebrate the alternative vision and sound, offering a plat From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
Welcome Back: The Studio's Semester
Welcome back students, staff and faculty. There's a lot going on in The Studio this semester! SDV Courses: The Studio offers regularly scheduled "short courses" focusing on the princples of digital video and the tools available in The Studio to complete digital video projects: These classes are open to everyone and registration is required.
More information Gear: The Studio has equipment available to check out, just like a book! We have miniD From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
Comment from Jody Eldred
I received an email from Jody Eldred in response to this
entry. While I was hoping to highlight the increasing accessibility of HD-based cinematography, Mr. Eldred pointed out some important distinctions. Let it be known: I definitely am NOT leaving my F900 CineAlta for ANYTHING, especially the Z1U! The Z1U is a terrific camera, and is "as-advertised" (actually, it exceeds expectations.) But as I stated repeatedly in my Sundance workshops, it is NOT a replacement for the F900, nor will From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
New Issue of Media Culture and Society V. 27 No 4.
TI: American journalism and the politics of diversity AU: Benson, R JN: Media Culture and Society PG: 5-20 TI: Obsessed with the audience: breakfast television revisited AU: Wieten, J; Pantti, M JN: Media Culture and Society PG: 21-40 TI: Selling learning: towards a political economy of edutainment media AU: Buckingham, D; Scanlon, M JN: Media Culture and Society PG: 41-58 TI: The Jerry Springer Show as an emotional public sphere AU: Lunt, P; Stenner, P JN: Media Culture and Society PG: 59-82 From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
Con-Can Film Festival
Welcome to the CON-CAN Movie Festival, hosted by CON-CAN Media Plaza. This film festival targets short films of up to twenty minutes in length and opens its doors widely to all image creators. Selected productions in streaming format with subtitles will be shown to audiences around the world, and evaluations will be made to determine the best productions...[
more]. From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
FILMFESTIVALS.COM WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
FILMFESTIVALS.COM WEEKLY NEWSLETTER No 218: February 5 - 12, 2004 ______________________________________________________________ NEWS FROM FESTIVALS * European Film Market 2005 in Berlin * Guadalajara Film Festival celebrates 20 years of Fonds Sud * Clermont Ferrand Market celebrates 20th * The Banff World Television Festival (new name, new projects) * Florida Festival season in high gear * GoEast HYPHEN Wiesbaden Festival of Central and Eastern Europe * Victoria Festival Opens With JIMMYWORKS * Sundanc From
Alpha Channel: The Studio @ Hodges Library on February 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m..
3 tagging conclusions
I'm in San Francisco for a TTI Vanguard conference. I'm doing the first presentation, and if you look at this list of Vanguard "digerati" in the room (not to mention the other 150 attendees) you'll see why I'm a tad nervous. So, of course, I spent three wee hours this morning rewriting the presentation I'd rewritten on the plane, that I'd rewritten... I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1. Rather than knowledge ending where the miscellaneous From
Joho the Blog on February 8, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
Would You Like Fries With That?
Just got a headset for doing audio chatting... too much feedback from the laptop speakers and crappy built in micorphone. C'mon
Skype me! "How about a super kids meal? C'mom, trans-fats are fun"I never worked fast food ;-) From
cogdogblog on February 8, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
DEVONtechnologies
My beloved tool changes its backoffice. Looks like the enterprise edition of
DEVONthink is ready.NEW STRATEGIC ALLIANCE, HEADQUARTERS IN U.S.A. DEVONtechnologies Ltd. and AgentScience Technologies, Inc., announce that they have formed a strategic alliance and open a new holding company in the USA. In this alliance, AgentScience Technologies acquires DEVONtechnologies, and both companies together open a From
thomas n. burg | randgänge on February 8, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..
Google Maps
Google Maps This looks pretty interesting... From the Take a tour page... Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So Google decided to make dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable -- no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Want to be able to type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map? Now you can with Google Maps. Since these maps are draggable, you can use... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 8, 2005 at 1:50 p.m..
Tools for RSS
Using RSS tools, publishers and webmasters can increase productivity and efficiency. RSS monitoring can often automate many of the procedures that are time-consuming and monotonous, freeing up time. Complete Article -
Tools for RSS From
RSS Blog on February 8, 2005 at 12:59 p.m..
(re) Descubriendo blogs
Una selección periódica, muy personal, de buenos weblogs de hoy y de ayer. Arte Aladas Palabras Mágicas por Sandra Poemas, relatos, ensayos y variado material de diferentes escritores. Diarios de bitácora. Contribuciones. En fin... literatura: locas ocurrencias creativas de esas... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 8, 2005 at 12:51 p.m..
Dummies Books at the Pharmacy
I'm standing in line at the local pharmacy last night, waiting to pick up a prescription, when a huge rack of books catches my eye--just as it was intended to do. But the titles were pretty funny, at least to me. In the popular yellow and black color scheme I see: "Pregnancy for Dummies" "Menopause for Dummies", and "Heart Disease for Dummies". Uh, am I missing something here? Just how smart do you need to be to get pregnant? Shoot, stupid people have... From
Brain Frieze on February 8, 2005 at 11:54 a.m..
New Chip to Challenge Intel - Associated Press
Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details Monday of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video-game consoles to business computers. De From
Techno-News Blog on February 8, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
Budget Hike Won't Save Hubble
The Bush administration proposes giving NASA cash for a moon mission and ongoing operations, but money earmarked for the space telescope would be just enough to let the orbiting observatory die a quiet, watery death. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
New Chip to Challenge Intel
IBM, Sony and Toshiba join forces on a new microprocessor said to combine flexibility with raw computing horsepower. The processor, dubbed Cell, might chuck Wintel compatibility in a bid to dethrone the Pentium. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:46 a.m..
What Websites Do to Turn On Teens
When teenagers surf the web, they often have different goals than adults do. But some interesting features draw them in: big type, lots of pictures and a reasonable dose of respect. By Daniel Terdiman. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Clone Ban Comeback Likely
President Bush's comments relating to embryonic stem-cell research during the State of the Union address were ambiguous, but they were a clear push for action from Congress. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Wanted: Just About Everything
Need an apartment, a lover, a car? Want to make a documentary? Go to craigslist. A filmmaker looks at a day in the life of online classifieds. Daniel Terdiman reviews 24 Hours on Craigslist. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
What Exactly Is Under the Sea?
Even with today's advanced mapping technologies, old and sometimes secret data can lead to deadly surprises on the ocean floor. By Rowan Hooper. From
Wired News on February 8, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
¿Ética blogger? Pues va a ser que sÃ
En el sugerente post Blogs como herramientas de marketing, Enrique Dans se plantea en qué medida puede verse comprometido el poder de prescripción de un blogger ante la eventual existencia de contraprestaciones económicas reveladas u ocultas que pudieran condicionar el... From
eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 8, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..
Web Application Footprints and Discovery
Serious challenges arise when doing web application assessments on web servers that host multiple virtual hosts and all this with zero knowledge about the number of web applications mapped to a single IP address. Using the manual techniques outlined in the paper, the methodology pinpoints specific ways to discover applications and enhance web application assessment with tangible results. From
Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers on February 8, 2005 at 5:55 a.m..
CDL Research Day
If you're a grad student in our program, I'm pretty sure you'd be welcome to join us at this event. This is an invitation that was sent to the TEL group, but I think the event is open to a... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 8, 2005 at 5:53 a.m..
Location: Why "Medium" is Extra Small
NBC's "hit show"
Medium is about a psychic who is helping solve cases in what is purported to be Phoenix, Arizona. I believe it is the "Phoenix, near Burbank". It looks like they are not wasting any money on location shots, because I have yet to see a cactus, a desert rabbit, a creosote bush, a snake or any recognizable building structures or streets. The clincher was tonight's episode (playing in the background before the news comes on, I am not absorbed in this drivel) where the main character is frantically calli From
cogdogblog on February 8, 2005 at 5:48 a.m..
Calling all blogs
I am trying to put together a blog roll of which has a list of blog whose focus or authors are from the k-12 Online schools group. These blogs will be listed on the Association for Online K-12 Online schools.... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on February 8, 2005 at 3:47 a.m..
Female Podcasters: Here’s Why This Matters, Adam…
Today I've added a couple of new female hosted/co-hosted shows to my Women in Podcasting List. The total number of shows on that list is currently 37 podcasts, plus one videolog. Also, I was pleased that Adam Curry, probably the world's most popular podcaster, briefly mentioned my list in his Feb. 6 Daily Source Code show , and included a direct link to my list in his show notes. However, I was a bit disappointed with the way he seemed dismissive of the issue of women in podcasting. Here's what he said... From
Contentious Weblog on February 8, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..